Category Archives: STUART PIGOTT RIESLING GLOBAL

Here’s Vincent Bründlmayer of the Bründlmayer estate in Langenlois/Austria being interviewed on camera by Brooklyn-based documentary filmmaker Marcarthur Baralla for Watch Your Back (a Riesling movie). My party at American Flatbread TriBeCa (205 Hudson Street at Canal Street) was a … Continue reading →

As you can see I am in party mood and I hope that you are too if you are coming to the STUART PIGOTT RIESLING GLOBAL Party (in association with Michael Skurnik Wines) from 9pm this evening at American Flatbread … Continue reading →

Riesling keeps teaching me lessons, keeps showing me how many of my own convictions are just so much baggage, so many boundaries I’ve consciously and unconsciously put up in front of myself. As Friedrich Nietzsche wrote, “convictions are greater enemies … Continue reading →

A couple of hours ago I was making my way along Bleeker Street/Greenwich Village in an easterly direction – facing the lost world of Europe! – when suddenly close to the junction with Thompson Street a young guy beamed at … Continue reading →

After almost two months in New York Wine City I will be heading back to Berlin shortly. Fear not, I shall return with this diary and much else on March 4th. To celebrate the end of my longest stay to … Continue reading →

Here is Paul Grieco of restaurant Hearth and the Terroir wine bars in New York in full flight during one of two tasting-lectures on Riesling we gave yesterday at the Culinary Institute of America (the other CIA). The CIA campus … Continue reading →

As you can see I just took part in a very fascinating that explored the outer limits of cool climate grape varieties. It took place in the cellar of Rouge Tomate Restaurant at 10 East 60th Street and the wines … Continue reading →

From my seat at Café Tallulah (240 Columbus Avenue at 72nd Street) I was looking right at her, so I had to take a picture of her. After all she is so very photogenic. I was sitting there with Frederick … Continue reading →

I was just at Restaurant Hearth down the road at East 12th Street and First Avenue for a tasting of Rieslings and other Chilean wines from aromatic white grape varieties. Not only do few people think of Chile for Riesling, … Continue reading →

Yesterday evening I tasted a revolutionary Australian Riesling, which didn’t taste like any other Australian Riesling I’d ever encountered before. The packaging was also very striking – an all gold label that actually looked good! – but like a fool … Continue reading →